Security is an important element of your validity evidence and therefore should be considered in your validation framework and integrated into your program design and your test development and maintenance activities. Adopting an integrated and proactive security methodology is an effective way to promote validity and mitigate the risk of harm to a program’s reputation, brand, and finances as a result of intentional wrong-doing such as fraud, cheating, and misconduct, or as a result of test takers unwittingly gaining an unintended advantage.

Alpine’s staff has expertise in working with program sponsors to design and implement an integrated security solution that encompasses prevention, detection, and enforcement. We are unique in our ability to combine our psychometric expertise with functionality in our CertMetrics™ Credential Management system to detect and systematically respond to testing irregularities in near-real time, thereby giving test sponsors the information they need in the timeframe they need it to proactively rather than retroactively enforce security policies.

Design and implement security throughout your test development and maintenance activities

Provide proactive security solutions

Provide risk assessment (security review)

Remove scoring and therefore the key from delivery providers and testing centers

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